Artist name: Beck Album name: Modern Guilt Label: Interscope/XL Recordings Genre: Alternative Rock Release date: July 8, 2008 ZMErating: 9/10 Website: www.beck.com Oh, my! It’s just incredible how Beck Hansen has changed, evolving (or regressing when he’s going old school loco) in sound, as each record gets out. And here he is, at his 10th studio album, Modern Guilt, an album detailing an experience, an album that tackles a lot of Beck’s inner, unresolved issues…
Ah, the kings are back. No, not Elvis impersonators (the ’80s are long gone, thank God!), but fellow Tennesse southern rockers [tag]Kings of Leon[/tag], with a new album eaching to see the light of day, and a new single to match it too. “Crawl” is the name of the first song released by KoL (as a free MP3 actually, on their website) off the upcoming album, Only by the Night, built in the manner of…
Oh, people never leave these poor people alone, do they? First there was that really awesome cruel emo witch-hunt back in Mexico, then there was that all press mambo jambo going on with an English teenage emo who killed herself, now to top things off the State Duma is thinking about passing a law to ban the emo current all together in Mother Russia. According to NME a legislation is already currently being formulated in…
Yesterday brought some sad news, folks. Our favorite post punkers, the Nashville quartet Be Your Own Pet just announced through a press release on their MySpace blog, that the band will officially disband soon. “To all of our fans, we are sad to bring you the news that our upcoming shows in the UK are going to be our last as a band. We thank you for all your love and support these past few…
The question that was on the lips of millions of people has now been answered; Shirley Halperin of Entertainment Weekly made public the announcement that band fans were waiting for more than a couple of months already. Royston Langdon, frontman for Spacehog and also the estrange husband of Liv Tyler will be the new singer of Velvet Revolver. He performed some jam sessions with them, and everybody got along just great. In a recent interview,…
Wednesday, 23 July, I had the luck of being at a Metallica concert, in Bucharest, at Cotroceni stadium. Living not that far from it and knowing the city pretty much, I arrived early in the morning to check some parts of the city. Some good and bad news came up from then: some parts of the city looked great, with amazing architecture, while some were in very bad shape. The traffic was almost really stuck…
I was really impressed and ecstatic about the new Radiohead video, for In Rainbows slow jam “House Of Cards,” when I first talk about it last week. Now, finally, the video has surfaced on the web (well actually it’s been on for a few good days now, but I’ve been away and stuff like that) and let me tell you it doesn’t fail any of my grandeous expectations I had for it. It’s simply stunning….
I wasn’t quite fond of [tag]Bloc Party[/tag]’s recent, sophomore release A Weekend In The City, not to say it was bad or anything, but I just believe the more experimental direction the band is heading to, isn’t to my liking. It seems like the third album, scheduled sometime at the end of this year (nothing has been announced, but you can expect it to be sometime later this year), will follow in its footsteps in…
What does [tag]Rage Against The Machine[/tag] guitarist Tommy Morello and Presidential candidate Barrack Obama have in common? Well according to Tommy the similarities between them are quite striking… “Well, you know, being the half-Kenyan Harvard graduate from Illinois in his early forties, not running for president this year’s election gives me a unique perspective,” Morello tells Rolling Stone’s Austin Scaggs. “I’ve always felt more comfortable on the other side of the barbed wire fence, you…
The LA quartet, Bodies of Water, have steadily grown into a memorable act of the indie scene in the last few years, especially around the Ca. zone. They first sparked a few waves with their self-titled EP from 2005, which got a lot of positive critical receptions from well known publications, which, subsequently, eventually helped them sign a deal with a label. Now, the band is prepping the release of their sophomore album “A Certain…
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